Bøger af Jack Winter

R. Jack Winter's debut novel GANI & SEAN follows two assassins whose paths cross when one fails to fulfill her contract to kill the other. Sean LePen misses her shot when she realizes her target is a man she admires for years, from her days in weapons training under his tutelage. When Kristoff Koczella - the brutal and bizarre Chicago kingpin - realizes his assassin's mistake, he hires "the voice" to pursue and kill both Sean and Gani. Sean flees Chicago across country with both Gani and "the voice" on her trail. Will she survive? Will Gani?

Tales of the Emperor is based on the life of Qin Shi Huang (circa 260210 BCE), the First Emperor he who unified China, gave it his name, built the Great Wall, entombed an army of terra cotta soldiers, authored legalism, erased history, insinuated governance, and established paranoia as a national characteristic. His dynasty did not outlive him but his influence permeates the present and, there is ample indication, will dominate the future.The literary method of Tales of the Emperor is derived from the first Chinese attempt at writing history the famous Historical Records of Ssu-Ma Chien. Like that Chinese classic, Tales of the Emperor is motivated by the desire to understand the past by entering it, mixing testimony with anecdote, interpretation with invention, biography with characterization, objective analysis with passionate self-interest.Birth to death, Tales of the Emperor tells the story of its central figure in a thematic rather than a chronologic narrative. In a mosaic of separate tales some no more than fragments, others chapter-length intersecting characters are presented, entwined, relinquished, among them a failed assassin, a wily adviser, an ironic architect, a castrated historian, an entire tribe of grave builders, and, of course, the wry, conflicted, everyday tyrant himself. The Emperors accomplishments are documented, his strivings are examined, and intimate tittle-tattle about him is indulged.Theres only one principal theme: you find the antiquity you look for, or, in the language of the book: history is the study of the paintings of great events.